Welcome to the May 2004 issue of The Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for visual journalism.

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The "shock and awe" of recent photographs from Iraq showing U.S. military torturing and humiliating prisoners is a strong indication of the power images continue to hold in the court of public opinion.

"Our long search for someone who can lead our photojournalism to its rightful place is over."

I don't know if you fully realize how lucky you are when it comes to the photographers that you employ.

The "Gray Lady" is getting meaner than ever in her old age.

Why do we have this fear of calling Iraq a quagmire when it is, even if different from Vietnam?

Last month's exhibition of the National Association of Broadcasters was all about High-Definition television and the move to tapeless cameras.

The film tells a personal story of what it was like to be an "embed" and presents a war you didn't see on TV.

TV News - and other forms of journalism of the future - will steadily drift away from the "professional" standard of objectivity and back to one that regularly incorporates argument into its soul.